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Abraham: yep, you can speak. <br />Jerome: So the division understands, that it is not just the pier. The <br />unsheltered individual are in all of our facilities, on this Island, <br />on Oahu, on Maui, and this is something that we bump into all <br />the time. I am not trying to target the pier or deny the <br />community access to the pier. I appreciate that it is the historic <br />resource for West Hawaii, and I intent it to remain so. But we <br />have issues right now and this is within resource management. <br />Temporary closures of resources and I'm talking about bays and <br />I'm talking about areas that are over used or the resource is <br />under extreme stress. No it hasn't really been applied to <br />something like the pier, but the concept is applicable. That is <br />what we are discussing. I do not wish to punish the people and <br />the residence of Kona, I want them to have their pier, I want <br />them to have that pier, where it is safe and I have been on that <br />pier 2:00 am in the morning, 3:00 am in the morning, sometimes <br />there are no problem at all. But I'm given a certain set of facts, <br />and I have to take these into consideration and so we will. And <br />Mr. Chairman just very briefly it is an ongoing investigation and <br />we are cooperating with Hawaii County Police department <br />investigation of it. It was a resident of Kona, a longtime resident <br />of Kona. Who was allegedly assaulted by a homeless individual <br />and the coroner's inquest is ongoing, but I can't ignore these <br />things. <br />Teresa: Just because of this issue? — I would like to speak further and <br />have a definitive timeline as to what Temporary is? Not just an <br />open-ended temporary closure that has no deadline. That <br />doesn't set well with me, because temporary is supposed to be <br />a short term, but it sounds like, your temporary could be a long <br />term. So I would like to see a deadline date of what temporary <br />closure is or a proposal of such an approximate. Because you <br />need to have some kind of timeline on your ongoing issue of <br />resolving of what can be done at the pier. I don't want to see a <br />5 year temporary closure, I don't want to see a 10 year <br />